HYMN-BOOK OF THE EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION.

pp. 549, 19. 14 cm. Original fine full leather binding, elaborately decorated in gilt. Lizzie Garman's copy, with her name in gilt on the Front board. The Evangelical Church or Evangelical Association, also known as the Albright Brethren, is a "body of American Christians chiefly of German descent", Arminian in doctrine and theology; in its form of church government, Methodist Episcopal. It was founded in 1800, by the Rev. Jacob Albright (1759-1808), a Pennsylvania German influenced by John Wesley and the Methodist movement. The first meetings were held in 1803, and a Book of Discipline was introduced six years later. In 1816, the church took on the name "The eganEvangelical Association". Long based in New Berlin, PA, Church headquarters remained there until 1853, when they moved west to Cleveland, Ohio in the footsteps of German-speaking immigrants to the Northwest Territory. NOTE: We have in stock, but not on-line the early German books published by the Association at New Berlin. FRONT CASE 2